This chapter continues the focus of the development of an environment that enabled the establishment of centres and environmental education in NSW through a close examination of pivotal events, organisations, and associated politics. The NSW Fauna Protection Panel (FPP) was instrumental in shaping early conservation efforts. As conservation societies emerged, these groups played key roles in advocacy and environmental protection. This chapter engages and illustrates cornucopian to limits discourse—discrete boundaries to systems thinking. The historical narrative of the development of the FPP provides an important opportunity to advance the role of Allen Strom, member and later Chief Guardian of the FPP—a key character in the development of environmental education broadly and in the field studies centres in NSW specifically. The chapter also draws parallels to other disputes, such as the Little Desert controversy in Victoria, which further underscores the challenges and dynamics in environmental advocacy during this era. Reflection on this history offers insight into the complex interplay between conservation, politics, and environmental education—bottom-up political influences, the placating of bureaucracy and the waxing and waning of political favour. It narrates a history that highlights the strength of collective action, education, and the power of people working together.